The first of two poems written in response to the phrase ascendant emotion, undoubtedly a misreading of the words stenciled on a couple of industrial-sized dumpsters at a construction site I drove past this afternoon… Feelings arise meaning I am alive I am uncomfortable this is part of the rhyme as when I shout my [...]

Too hot to be serious… Tired of standing Not looking where they’re going The appearance of new buildings all glass and sparkle fills them with such an overwhelming sense of defeat they crumble They’re not Weebles Tripped by the jealous café on the corner Naturally inept Slipped on a banana peel Mistaken for Rock’em Sock’em [...]

A two-fer, because I thought of the second one after I'd written another poem. 1 My favorite is the lemonade kite It’s tricky to fly but instead of getting tangled in trees or wires it showers lemonade all through the park 2 I was going to say the milkshake kite but that would get too [...]

I was hoping for more from this one, but I cut things close as it is… Lights are out for the night but my eyes are wide open There’s a crowd gathered where my thoughts are I’ve been putting up one wall after another between me and tomorrow to try to corral them but they’ve [...]